Whoopi Goldberg Quotes

In the dark times, if you have something to hold on to, which is yourself, you'll survive.

When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire.

We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.

Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine.

Art and life are subjective. Not everybody's gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it.

We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.

I always wore sneakers when I wanted to. It was always about being comfortable and being myself.

Children are a quality of life ... when our children are happy, then we are better as human beings.

It you want to be somebody, If you want to go some where, you've got to wake up and pay attention

It never occurs to me that there are things I can't do.

If there wasn't something called acting, they would probably hospitalize people like me.

If you can handle the fact that people are going to be mad at you when you do what you think is right, you'll be alright.

If you don't look out for others, who will look out for you?

I don't believe that there is any good career move or bad career move. I believe there are only the things that make me happy.

Taking action is hard, but know what? Enduring a bad situation can be its own hell.

I don't think in terms of failure....I don't feel like anyone outside of me should be setting limitations. People should be encouraged to shoot for the moon.

An actress can only play a woman. I'm an actor, I can play anything.

When I forget how talented God is, I look to the sea.

If you're willing to stand for what you believe in ... you won't need advice from me, because you will be able to handle whatever comes.

I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities.

Normal is in the eye of the beholder.

You have to believe in yourself in spite of what other people believe.

My mother's great. She has the major looks. She could stop you from doing anything, through a closed door even, with a single look. Without saying a word, she has that power to rip out your tonsils.

You don't want to think something might be racist, but it might be, because your gut is telling you it is

I've learned to take time for myself and to treat myself with a great deal of love and respect, because I like me.. I think I'm kind of cool.

When I was doing ensemble theater and comedy work, I felt I had some talents. But when I started doing my shows in Berkeley and found that I could be funny on my own, I was shocked.

[The original Sister Act] is running all over the world now, on-stage as a musical. It lives!

I don't have pet peeves like some people. I have whole kennels of irritation.

I don't look like Halle Berry. But chances are, she's going to end up looking like me.

I don't really view communism as a bad thing.

I used my imagination to make the grass whatever color I wanted it to be.

The only argument you can make against having Confederate flag as spectacularly shown as it is around the south is the Nazis. I mean, it would be like having the swastika flag...

I'm as American as Chevrolet.

We're dealing with old issues that aren't ours. We carry them and we pass them on to those who come after us. I am hoping to crack some of those.

I dig being a mother.

Actors have no color. That's the art form.

Just call me black, if you want to call me anything.

Normal is just a cycle on the washing machine.

Her least favorite thing: VOLUNTARY IGNORANCE

[On her monologue as the thief 'Fontaine':] People always got things. People always want things. So I provide a service.

You know, be an actor because you love to act. Don't be an actor because you think you're going to get famous, because that's luck.

That's the thing about Mother Nature, she really doesn't care what economic bracket you're in.

My family is Jewish, Buddhist, Baptist and Catholic. I don't believe in man-made religions.

I am the American Dream. I am the epitome of what the American Dream basically said. It said you could come from anywhere and be anything you want in this country. That's exactly what I've done.

It bums me out tremendously what the church has become, and if it's got me bummed, imagine what Jesus Christ must be feeling.

Sometimes experience trumps assumption.

You couldn't always trust the history books. They told a diluted truth, a truth by committee.

I'm fighting the label of 'Black' actress simply because it's very limiting in people's eyes, especially people who are making movies.

Things happen to you out of luck, and if you get to stick around it's because you're talented.

I'm a big old egotistical baby and that's okay. I can accept it.